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                    [Title] => Enter the Year of the Dragon and the new-generation supermarkets
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I was a little wide-eyed girl when I first set foot on a grocery store, just a hop, skip, and a jump away from our house in an obscure neighborhood in Sampaloc, Manila.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 742558 [Title] => Are you ready for Christmas? [Summary] =>

We used to start our Christmas shopping (for non-perishable items) every weekend in August.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134410 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479322 [AuthorName] => Lydia Castillo [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 665246 [Title] => Forget about shelf control at Rustan's Supermarket [Summary] =>

When grocery shopping, it’s definitely hard to exercise shelf control when premium chocolates, Iberico ham, slices of Manchego, and fine wines and spirits seem to be calling out your name.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447204 [AuthorName] => Lai S. Reyes [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478839 [Title] => Going fresh and French at Shopwise Alabang [Summary] =>

When Shopwise opened in Alabang, its maiden store in its growing chain of hypermarkets, 10 years ago, shoppers were just so happy to discover — at long last — a one-stop shopping destination that’s got practically everything they needed, from fresh items to dry goods.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7936/lif1thumb.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 438020 [Title] => Three in a day [Summary] =>

For six hours, with the traffic cooperating, we managed to visit three food outlets in one day early last week and thus was able to do market research at Rustans Supermarket, DEC, and Unimart.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134410 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479322 [AuthorName] => Lydia Castillo [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 77747 [Title] => Feeling Olympian with a Citi Rustan’s Card [Summary] =>

On Thursday evenings, this creature of habit just has to assume ritual mode. Wheeling out of Ateneo’s Loyola Heights campus at a little past 7 after handling a weekly three-hour class in Fiction, we note the rush-hour traffic building up both ways on Katipunan Avenue. Intermittent rain has exacerbated the muddle. [DatePublished] => 2008-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) ) )

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